Research Catalog

Title

New religious movements : a practical introduction / by Eileen Barker.

Author

Barker, Eileen, 1938-

Publication

London : H.M.S.O., 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Great Britain. Home Office.

Description

xii, 234 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Led to write the book by a conviction that a great deal of unnecessary suffering has resulted from ignorance of the nature and characteristics of the current wave of new religious movements in the West. Discusses, among others, the Children of God, Church of Scientology, the Human Potential Movement, Rastafarianism, Unification Church, etc.

Subject

• Religion > Social aspects
• Religion and sociology
• Cults
• Religion
• Religions
• Religion
• religion (discipline)
• worship
• sociology of religion
• religions (belief systems, cultures)
• cults (group or movement)
• Religions
• Cults
• Religion and sociology
• Religion > Social aspects
• Godsdienstige bewegingen
• Sectes > Aspect social
• Communautés religieuses > Aspect social
• nouveau mouvement religieux

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224)

Credits (note)

• At head of title: Home Office.

Contents

Some characteristics of new religious movements -- Conversion or mind control? -- What do new religious movements offer potential converts? -- The new convert -- Areas of public concern -- Effects on the individual -- Personal relations and the family within the movements -- Separateness -- Effects on the 'outside family' -- Parents' reactions -- Forcible deprogramming -- A middle way -- Leaving a movement -- A wider awareness.

ISBN

• 0113409273
• 9780113409273

OCLC

• ocm20805774
• 20805774
• SCSB-1906976

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library